DBMS > dBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Asthon Tate

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2021

1994

2007

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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